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Tony Dodds

New Zealand triathlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ26231017 ↗
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Tony Dodds (born 16 June 1987) is a New Zealand triathlete.

Dodds was born in 1987 in Balclutha and grew up in Wānaka.He attended high school at John McGlashan College in Dunedin. He came tenth at the Men's triathlon at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. While in Barcelona with the New Zealand team in July 2015, he had his belongings stolen twice. He represented New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tony Dodds” as new Zealand triathlete. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 2014, 2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-06-16. The account is most persuasive where Tony, Dodds and Zealand can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as new Zealand triathlete. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26231017. VIAF identifies the subject as 6511148451584915970001. The Library of Congress control number is no2016170314. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tony Dodds” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.